Today is the first day of school, the two-hour version. The task today requires that students describe themselves in six words. This description does not have to be a complete sentence and likely will not be. It can merely consist of adjectives or it can be a simple summing-up of oneself. It's important to remember that the art of writing is as much what we leave out as it is what we choose to leave in. Economy is preferred over paragraphs of repetition or lengthy description. Word choice, the skill of choosing what word belongs in what place, matters. So much of English class in the early years is grammar, a labeling of parts. Just because a person knows the parts of the engine doesn't mean he or she can put it together so that it runs. Writing is an act of choosing while at the same time it is an act of freedom.
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